Script search not searching all scripts

Working on a sprawling doc project with 100ish hours of interviews and more to come, all transcribed and scripts imported.

When I keyword search "Current Script" for "Script A" I get multiple hits, but when I search "Scripts in Project", "Script A" doesn't come up, and nor do several others which I know to contain the keyword.

Is there anything I can do to get it to re-index the scripts without also reindexing the Phrasefind index, which takes a looong time?

Re: Script search not searching all scripts

In each Project folder, you shoud see a folder called SearchData which contains a file called _SearchDB_.

This file is the database of the indexed bins within your project.

If you have ScriptSync activated, which you do, you should also see a folder called PhoneticData which contains a number of files with a .pat extension; these files contain the phonetic information for each of the audio clips within your project. One .pat file will be created per clip.

I suggest you delete the _SearchDB_ when MC is NOT running and restart and let SS redo your search.

Re: Script search not searching all scripts

I did that, and waited until the Bin Index light in the search window was all the way green, and repeated the search. This time I used a term that appears in all or nearly all of the 20+ scripts in the project, but only 9 were found in the search. Is the bin index light a reliable indicator that it has finished indexing? Activity monitor shows AvidBinIndexer to be running, but at less than 1% CPU. Meanwhile AvidPhoeneticIndexer seems to run nonstop (200%+ CPU) but never seems to finish, even left running overnight or weekend, and seems to be creating new .pat files for clips that were ingested nearly a year ago.

Any thoughts? It would be great to be able to have more control and information about the indexing process; for example, to choose which bins I need Phrasefind to index, and a list of which bins/scripts have been indexed.

Thanks,

Chyld King

Edit to add: It does find the terms if I search the missing scripts individually; just not in "Scripts in Project" (which would be more helpful).

Re: Script search not searching all scripts

I am also looking for a solution to this same problem! We are working from a server, and for a search term that I know appears in many of our scripts I get 17 results while my AE (working in the same project on a different station) gets over 100. If you have any word on how to fix this, please let us know!

Re: Script search not searching all scripts

I've been having this issue on both shared project/ISIS and standalone systems around NYC since Spring and it's extremely frustrating that Avid hasn't solved it. Search "current script" works but "scripts in project" doesn't. Trashing all the _SearchDB_ files doesn't fix it.

This really limits the usefulness of the feature when in a doc project. I've resorted to searching in the finder and then manually opening that script in MC to find stuff, which is clumsy to say the least.

Re: Script search not searching all scripts

I was very excited to see this fix in 8.9.4, as referenced below, but unfortunately it did not work for me. I opened each of my scripts and saved, but search still skips the same scripts as before. As an example, making a film about black plague, so every transcript includes those words, but searching on "black" only hits about half the scripts. Any tips?

Thanks,

Chyld

BBug Number:
MCCET-2132. In some instan
ces, the editing application did not return results
when performing a search for text when “Scripts
in Project” was selected as a search criteria.
This has been fixed.
NOTE: For this fix to work on existing scripts,
you must open the script and then save it.

Re: Script search not searching all scripts

King is Korrect. You have to make some minor change in the script to force it to save. Adding a scriptmark or changing the margin or text width will do the trick. The less-thatn-fun part is we have about 70 scripts in our project.

I was able to manually save the most important scripts and having the global search back after 9 or so months is a godsend. Looks like the AE will have to open and slightly alter the remaining scripts ;-]